Dance: from Bolle to Tissi, La Scala's homage to Carla Fracci

Dance: from Bolle to Tissi, La Scala's homage to Carla Fracci.

After the extraordinary and exciting success of the first edition, the tribute from La Scala and its artists to Carla Fracci continues, which was and remains one pivotal figure in the history of dance. To celebrate this legendary star, the Director of the Ball Manuel Legris wanted to establish a Gala every Season, for convey and celebrate dance and ballet in its name with a broad international scope.

The second edition will also feature the corps de ballet, the principal dancers, the soloists, and international guests such as Alessandra Ferri, Roberto Bolle, Jacopo Tissi and Davide Dato, principal dancer of the Vienna Staaatsballet, making his debut on the La Scala stage, and the Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala which will be directed by Kevin Rhodes.

In the program, titles that they retrace the history of ballet and intersect with that of an extraordinary artist, who left his mark as a performer of romantic ballet, of the great nineteenth-century repertoire but also of the temperament and modernity of the choreographic visions of the twentieth century.

Starting from the beginning, where it all began: fired from the Dance School, it was she who was chosen to perform the ballet after the opera The Sleepwalker by Luchino Visconti: The Specter of the Roses. Michail Fokin's iconic ballet will open the evening with Jacopo Tissi and Letizia Masini, recalling the legendary creative adventure of the Ballets Russes which we will also find in two other titles, reinterpreted by the creative originality of Amedeo Amodio - in L'Après-midi d'un Faune (Agnese Di Clemente and Domenico Di Cristo on stage) - and John Neumeier –  in an excerpt from Le Pavillon d'Armide, played by Davide Dato.

Neumeier, great master of the twentieth century, even in the dreamy pas de deux from the second act of La Dame aux camélias, with – for the first time together in this ballet – Nicoletta Manni in the role of Marguerite Gautier and Roberto Bolle in that of Armand Duval. Great maestro as well as Roland Petit, deeply linked to the history of our Theatre, whose pas de deux will be presented by Martina Arduino and Marco Agostino The wolf, a 1953 creation that arrived in Italy for the first time at La Scala in 1963.

In the name of the great étoile, with Alice Mariani, Maria Celeste Losa, Claudio Coviello, Federico Fresi, Mattia Semperboni, Caterina Bianchi, Gabriele Corrado and the Teatro alla Scala Ballet Corps returns to the stage Verdi Suite which Manuel Legris dedicated to Carla Fracci, for its link with Verdi's music, and arrives for the first time, with Alessandra Ferri and Roberto Bolle, the pas de deux from After the Rain by Christopher Wheeldon.

Carla Fracci profoundly modern, and unforgettable embodiment of the myth of the romantic dancer which will be celebrated here in a precious pas de deux from the second act of The Butterfly, the only ballet choreographed by Maria Taglioni, in Pierre Lacotte's reconstruction for the Paris Opera in 1976, performed by Linda Giubelli and Nicola Del Freo.

There will be no shortage of great repertoire, withSwan Lakeby Nureyev (excerpts from the third act, with Nicoletta Manni and Timofej Andrijashenko, with Christian Fagetti in the role of Rothbart, the soloists and artists of the Corps de Ballet in the Spanish dance and the mazurka) and with the Pas classique hongrois (in the role of Raymonda Martina Arduino, by Jean de Brienne Navrin Turnbull, with Gaia Andreanò solo dancer and the Corps de Ballet) from the third act of RAYMONDA by Petipa, in the reconstruction of Sergej Vikharev who saw his absolute debut at La Scala in 2011, sealing this second edition.